By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “Red Bodies” features a lot of different sections that involve power chord strumming, some arpeggio work, and even a guitar riff that was originally sung by Robert Pollard on his boom box demo for this song and then played on guitar by Chris Slusarenko when recorded for […]
Tag: Let It Beard
Make A Record For Lo-Life
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “Make A Record For Lo-Life” provides an excellent example of a frequent Robert Pollard technique: changing chords just ahead of the beat. It happens throughout this song, which you’ll see in the tablature when a chord changes right at the end of a measure. You need to […]
Tabby And Lucy
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard When learning a Robert Pollard song for the first time, I’m sometimes deceived into thinking the guitar work is simpler than it really is. In the case of “Tabby And Lucy,” for example, I started out by playing the chorus with pretty standard chords: A5 – D5 […]
Tourist UFO
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard When Robert Pollard prepared his demos for the Boston Spaceships album Let It Beard, he recorded his vocals and guitar on his boombox, then spliced sections of songs together to form a full composition. With this method in mind, I’m wondering if he ever had to actually learn […]
Earmarked For Collision
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “Earmarked For Collision,” from the Boston Spaceships masterpiece of a double album, Let It Beard, is all about nuance. Robert Pollard uses a couple of his trusty guitar techniques to craft a song with many parts that are very similar to one another, but with subtle differences. For […]
Chevy Marigold
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “Chevy Marigold” from the Boston Spaceships Let It Beard album is a lot of fun to play on guitar once you master the main riff. Nailing down the timing and rhythm for that part (and a couple of other parts in the song) can be a little tricky at […]
Let More Light Into The House
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard For the studio recording of “Let More Light Into The House,” fellow Boston Spaceshippers Chris Slusarenko and John Moen transformed Robert Pollard’s acoustic guitar demo into a full-on dirge; an open string drone guitar figure plods along during the first section, giving way to shuffling drums, urgent piano […]
No Steamboats
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard I’ve always considered Let It Beard to be my least favorite Boston Spaceships album. That’s not to say I never liked it, but in mental rankings it just always seemed to get bottom placement. Lately I’ve been reconsidering this evaluation, as I’ve been spending a LOT of time […]
Christmas Girl
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard When I create these guitar tablature posts, the tablature and chord diagrams are all made from shapes and tables in Google Slides, so I start by copying a song from a previous post that used similar tablature or chord diagrams and modify as needed. As it turns […]
The Ballad Of Bad Whiskey
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “The Ballad Of Bad Whiskey” from the final Boston Spaceships album Let It Beard sounds like The Beatles’ “Sexy Sadie” stumbled across an old saloon and stayed for too long, getting boozed up and slurred. This, according to Boston Spaceships member Christopher Slurarenko, was exactly the intention. He […]
